Good Samaritan dies after helping disabled N.Y. motorist

GRANBY, N.Y. — Authorities say a 69-year-old man has died after his vehicle collided head-on with a tractor-trailer just moments after he finished helping a motorist along a central New York road.

State police say on Tuesday afternoon Pedro Lugo of Fulton had parked his sports utility vehicle in front of a disabled vehicle on the shoulder of Route 3 in the Oswego County town of Granby, 25 miles northwest of Syracuse.

After assisting the other motorist, Lugo pulled onto the road and drove into the path of a truck driven by a 58-year-old man from Fulton. Troopers say Lugo's SUV came to rest several hundred awards away from the point of impact.

Lugo was taken to Oswego Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour after the crash. The truck driver wasn't injured.